Track cost performance for your product or project and catch outliers in production.
Once the product enters the volatile ramp-up and production phase actual costs are available in the ERP.
Most of the times actual costs fail to meet planned targets, and margins begin to leak.
Comparison limitations
Comparing the development team's complex spreadsheets against actual costs from the ERP is almost impossible, especially if you want to understand gaps in a repeatable, automated way.
Changing variables
High volatility across BoM changes, prices, and currencies, plus internal factors like routings and overheads, forces teams to waste weeks on non-value-adding work just to find the root cause of changes.
Missing prioritizations
With limited resources, teams struggle to know which changes to prioritize for the biggest impact and where cost-down actions are already ongoing. Teams spend time on tasks that have no P&L impact.
Product Cost Controlling enables automated, monthly monitoring of actual costs down to the component level. Immediately identify where gaps between target, planned, and actual costs occur, allowing you to act before profitability is lost.
Key Features for Product Cost Controlling
Portfolio cost dashboards
Full product lifecycle cost transparency and consistent management reporting across all products.
Automated cost gap detection
Identify gaps between development costs and serial production actuals automatically.
Root cause analysis
Trace cost changes to component level to understand what changed and why.
Market index monitoring
Assess the impact of material, FX and energy price movements on your cost base.
Action management
Define, assign and track cost-down initiatives with clear ownership and measurable impact.
Margin risk alerts
Get notified when and where margin risks emerge before they show up in the P&L.
Cost Management / Product Controlling
Monitors actual vs. target vs. planned costs monthly, down to component level, without manual ERP exports. Identify root causes of cost changes and tracks cost-down initiatives in one place
Product Management
Track margin performance against the original business case once the product is live. Know early when a product is drifting below its target margin and react based on live data.
Sales
Price with confidence when cost structures are transparent. Understand which products have margin headroom for negotiation and which do not.
Procurement
Sees exactly where price changes are driving cost variances. Prioritize renegotiations based on P&L impact rather than gut feeling and measure the result of every action taken.
Management & Finance
Get an automated, always-current view of product margins across the production portfolio. Sees where profitability is under pressure before it hits the EBIT line.
Find answers to common questions about our services, policies, and more to help you make informed decisions.
valuemize is a cross-functional product costing platform developed for industrial companies. Depending on the organizational setup, Cost & Value Managers, Product Managers, Project- and R&D Controllers might serve as system owners. Other departments such as Product Development, Procurement, Production, Finance, Product Management, Sales, and Executive Leadership are key contributors and stakeholders. The platform delivers its full value when all departments collaborate within this unified source of truth.
By streamlining and automating critical workflows, valuemize cuts non-value-added tasks more than 50%, while simultaneously uncovering up to 20% in potential cost and carbon footprint savings. Our platform delivers standardization across multiple global sites, ensuring consistency regardless of location. Even non-experts can easily navigate the intuitive interface and get full cost transparency.
These benefits directly impact your bottom line and sustainability goals.
Unlike spreadsheets that create inconsistent, scattered data requiring manual maintenance and limited simulation capabilities, valuemize offers standardized BoM bottom-up calculation, automated cost monitoring and flexible scenario simulation. While Excel limits product cost calculations to experts and creates knowledge silos, valuemize enables cross-functional collaboration with data-driven insights for each stakeholder.
Yes, we offer a risk-free "Proof of Value" phase that requires no IT integration, allowing you to test the solution with our close support before committing to implementation. This pragmatic approach ensures you can validate valuemize's benefits in your specific environment with minimal upfront investment.
valuemize integrates with major enterprise systems to eliminate manual data handling. Our cutting-edge software architecture and open API framework enable smooth integrations with your existing systems. Clean and connected data is the foundation of effective product lifecycle cost management.
Pricing varies based on your company size, operational complexity, number of licenses required, and deployment preference (cloud or on-premise). We create tailored packages to match your specific needs and ensure optimal return on investment.
valuemize is a product lifecycle costing platform that helps industrial companies automate repetitive tasks, avoid & optimize costs, and enable cross-functional collaboration seamlessly.
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